February 3, 2016
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‘Lamb’ is a heartwarming ilm from Ethiopia that tackles poverty issues and screen Friday, Feb. 26
at 7 p.m. during the month long Cascade Festival of African Films at Portland Community College’s
Cascade Campus in north Portland.
Films of Africa
C ontinued from p age 11
Watch” after his ilm “Lamb,”
was selected as the irst-ever
Ethiopian work to be screened
at Cannes. The ilm will be
shown at noon, Feb. 25 and 7
p.m., Feb. 26 at the PCC Cas-
cade Moriarty Auditorium.
In total, the ilms at this
year’s Cascade Festival of Af-
rican ilms hail from 11 African
countries: Algeria, Morocco,
Egypt, Ivory Coast, Nigeria,
South Africa, Kenya, Uganda,
Rwanda, Sudan and Ethiopia.
In addition to welcoming di-
rectors Allouache and Zaleke
in person, Portland audiences
will have the chance to con-
nect across continents through
online video discussions with
other directors in Africa fol-
lowing the local screenings.
In a time when most news
stories about Africa ixate on
war, famine, disease and cor-
ruption, the Cascade Festival
of African Films presents a
clear-eyed, authentic view of
African life in its many diverse
forms, said Tracy Francis, the
ilm festival’s coordinator.
This year the festival will
also examine LGBTQ issues
in Kenya with “Stories of our
Lives” (Kenya, 2014); gender
issues in South Africa with
a series of women-directed
shorts; poverty in Ethiopia
with the heartwarming story
“Lamb”; and love in the ro-
mantic comedy “Flower Girl”
(Nigeria, 2013).
Organizers say most feature
ilms are not suitable for children,
with the exceptions of “Kirik-
ou and the Men and Women”
(France/West Africa, 2012),
showing on Feb. 27; and “Lamb,”
showing on Feb. 25 and 26.
A longtime ixture of the
ilm festival is its Thursday
evening documentary ilm se-
ries. This year’s documentary
series, “The Power of Music
and the Arts,” offers a chance
to witness how the arts can
be a powerful force for social
change and expression through
ilms from Rwanda, Egypt, Su-
dan, and Morocco.
More than 5,000 people at-
tend the festival each year.
Most screenings take place at
the Moriarty Auditorium at
Portland Community College’s
Cascade Campus, 735 N. Kill-
ingsworth St.
For complete screening in-
formation, visit africanilmfes-
tival.org.
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